Pharoahe Monch told fans today on his website,
gundraws.com, that with his new video Gun Draws he wants to educate.
“We have undoubtedly become desensitized to death thru
senseless violence, whether perpetrated by or committed against us.
This is my effort to help awaken the unconscious and nourish the
youth.”
Monch is working with the group, Guns for Cameras,
which aims to take the guns out of childrens’ hands and replace the guns with video cameras for them to document their lives.
In a recent interview with Hip Hop Connection, Monch said of the song and video, “I’ve
seen people get shot in the head, that was sitting, like, two people
away from me. I’ve grew up in the hood, so I have the liberty to write
about those visuals that I’ve seen: people with holes in their head,
and going to funerals of people with holes in their head, and family
members and friends of mine?”
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When asked why he decided to make a song reminiscent of the Organized Konfusion song, Stray Bullet, he said, “That
was just beat-driven. I didn’t have any intention of doing it at first.
Denaun (Porter of D12) gave me the beat and he had the chorus on there. I’m sure for
him, he saw another vision, but I was like, ‘I love this beat, but I
can’t talk about guns, because that’s not me.’ I think this shit is
hard as fuck, but it’s not gun-toting and I haven’t shot anybody, and,
so?”
He added that guns in the US are ultimately too accessible, saying “Billions of dollars are spent yearly on the manufacturing of
weapons, and consequently those weapons need to be sold or paid for by
someone. History has shown wars have solved nothing and only caused
more war, but it is during war that countries need weapons so sometimes
even wars are manufactured. Gun control is more a global issue than a hood issue but let’s examine the similarities?”
Check out the video: http://videos.onsmash.com/v/tTC1TMMtBAcKpLLP
